[Ulmer's] version of "Derrida at the Little Bighorn" is provided as an example of an
alphabetic miming of a filmic mode -- the compilation film.
Like films made from other films, the compilation text is made
from other writings, consisting primarily of citations.
The "originality" of the piece rests with the actions of selection
and combination, treating the archive of extant works
as a vocabulary of a higher order discourse.

It is worth noting that the public mind, or popular culture expressed in the media of everyday
life, seems to produce mythology in a similar kind of compilation process, working
with historical events the way an editor works with old newsreels (209-210).